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Two fully discrete finite element methods, for a regularized system using the Ginzburg\u2013Landau regularization and for the limiting Ericksen\u2013Leslie model, are proposed, and well-posedness and related discrete energy laws are established. For the regularized model, unconditional convergence of finite element solutions towards weak solutions of the continuum model as well as convergence towards measure-valued solutions of the limiting Ericksen\u2013Leslie model are verified when the mesh parameters and the regularization parameter successively tend to zero. 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